WebSphere 8 Course Outline

This course provides the student with the necessary skill set to handle all sorts of administrative tasks on WebSphere Application Server 8.0 ND. The course material follows a “Do-it-yourself” approach and provides all the necessary instructions to install the product, try out various administrative tasks and learn. However with an instructor we can tremendously speed up the learning process. The following are the topics covered.

Application Server Overview

Module 1 – Install & Uninstall

Module 2 – Logs and Configuration

Module 3 – IBM HTTP Server & WAS Plug-in

Module 4 – Vertical Scaled Cluster Creation

Module 5 – JDBC

Module 6 – JMS

Module 7 – Application Deployment

Module 8 – Administrative Scripting

Module 9 – Job Manager

Module 10 – SSL Part I

Module 11 – SSL Part II

Module 12 – JVM Tuning

Module 13 – High availability

Module 14 – Administrative Agent

Module 15 – Security

Module 16 – Security Auditing

Module 17 – Administration Tools

Module 18 – CIM

By completing this course, the student will be able to administer WAS through its complete life cycle i.e. install WAS, deploy applications on WAS, configure WAS for different types of requirements and uninstall WAS. The course stresses the importance of automation through scripting and provides detailed examples in this area. Also the course highlights best practices and gives pointers to pitfalls.

This course contains over 850 pages of How To guides and more than 300 Power Point slides along with Labs, resources and questions and answers. When you purchase this course, you get access to the members area. Within the members area there is a list of products available. For every course you have purchased, you are given access to each courses landing page. Below is an example of this courses landing page looks like.